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Donald Trump met with black pastors Monday in an event that was at first billed as an endorsement. Trump has been criticized for his suggestion that a Black Lives Matter protestor who was roughed up at a Trump event deserved it.

Sen. Ted Cruz is stepping up his game in Iowa by going after the state's influential evangelical voters.

The president was invited formally by House Speaker Paul Ryan. It will be a chance for Obama to lay out his agenda for his final 12 months in office.

Kobe Bryant's 20-year NBA career will come to an end this spring. The longtime Laker announced his coming retirement Sunday with a poem. NPR's Kelly McEvers talks with Adrian Garcia Marquez, who calls Laker games for Time Warner Cable Deportes, about Bryant's career.

The International Monetary Fund says it is preparing to add China's currency, the yuan, to its list of reserve currencies. The move could help China's economy in the long run, but it would also require China to become more transparent about its monetary policies.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Jennifer Morgan, global director of the Climate Program at the World Resources Institute. They discuss what success in Paris would be and what has to happen afterward.

Authorities say Jabari Dean was motivated by the 2014 police killing of Laquan McDonald. He threatened to kill 16 white male students or staff to correspond with the number of times McDonald was shot.

The EU promised to give financial aid and to renew consideration of Turkish membership in the union. Then Turkey arrested more than 1,000 migrants who were planning to sail to Greece.

The IMF's decision to add the renminbi, also called the yuan, to its basket of reserve currencies is a new mark of prestige for the world's second-largest economy.

Experts trace the first completely anonymous jury to 1977. That's when a judge worried about possible jury tampering by a drug kingpin named Leroy "Nicky" Barnes, a man also known as Mr. Untouchable.